Important to us here in The FutureBook digital community, Eyre notes that in 2014:

Publishing was the third most common type of project on Kickstarter, with 2,064 successfully funded ventures worldwide, after music (4,009) and film and video (3,846). Another six categories – art, design, food, games, technology and theater – had more than 1,000 projects.

All told, we learn in the company’s Medium-esque wide-screen click-through, people were pledging $1,000 per minute in 2014. Contributors were able to “save a neighbourhood taco joint” and Neil Young “made a hi-fi music player” and LeVar Burton’s Reading Rainbow “made a huge comeback” and “a band delivered a pizza to space.” Marriages, tech innovations, and the Museum of Modern Art and so many others found ways to utilise crowdfunding.

New ideas, big and small, came from people everywhere. And millions of people worked together to make them a reality.